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author | Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> | 2008-12-27 12:26:39 -0500 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-01-29 15:59:41 -0500 |
commit | c557289cb8ea063bd09db88f8a687a841556e291 (patch) | |
tree | 5e77f69574c5c33cb8c5e70b24deb81c8b0eb7fc /Documentation | |
parent | 98a8d1a8f22237e2aa7db5453df0f68935a5ede0 (diff) |
b43: Change schedule for old-fw support removal
The scheduled date for the removal of old fw support was in July 2008.
However, we're not going to remove the support unless it causes a major
headache. So change the schedule from "July 2008" to "when it causes headaches".
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5ddbe350487a..ac98851f7a0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |||
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> | |||
229 | --------------------------- | 229 | --------------------------- |
230 | 230 | ||
231 | What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410 | 231 | What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410 |
232 | When: July 2008 | 232 | When: The schedule was July 2008, but it was decided that we are going to keep the |
233 | code as long as there are no major maintanance headaches. | ||
234 | So it _could_ be removed _any_ time now, if it conflicts with something new. | ||
233 | Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability | 235 | Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability |
234 | and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware | 236 | and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware |
235 | are not provided by Broadcom anymore. | 237 | are not provided by Broadcom anymore. |